Know This Before Getting Botox

Name: Know This Before Getting Botox
Uploaded: 2025-05-08T16:01:02+00:00
Duration: 53 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: Dr. Charles Mok explains why you should wait before combining Botox with other facial procedures. Swelling from fillers or laser treatments can cause…

8 May 2025 · 1 min

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Dr. Charles Mok explains why you should wait before combining Botox with other facial procedures. Swelling from fillers or laser treatments can cause Botox to spread to unintended areas. He recommends waiting at least a few hours to a day after Botox before getting facials, IPL, chemical peels, microneedling, or aggressive lasers.

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What about like facials or getting laser treatments done directly after? Is there a certain amount of time that you have to wait to have something like that done?
That's a great question. One thing that can occur if you do Botox and we do, we call tummessing the face. Would put a lot of water in the face to do aggressive laser procedure. It can spread into areas we don't want it to spread. So that's one of the times we won't do Botox. NCM laser resurfacing, aggressive laser refurbishing the same day. Usually wait a day between them or a few hours between them. That's one thing that it causes, can cause unwanted spread. But you can get facial afterwards, a facial massage afterwards, IPL afterwards, a vagus peel afterwards, microneedling afterwards, something. We're putting a lot of volume in the face. We want to give it a few hours just because if you do the Botox and you have a bunch of volume in the in the face, it does make that 12 minutes of uptake last a little bit longer than the Botox can displace.